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About this role
Aave is seeking a Director of Operations to lead operational functions for their global business, ensuring efficient and compliant operations while enhancing customer experience.
Description
Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally? We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech. Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally.
Our culture: We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities. We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it. We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable. We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale the operational strategy, structure and processes required to support a growing global business and customer base without compromising quality, controls or customer experience.
- Assume responsibility for the operational management of Push Virtual Assets Ireland Ltd in the capacity of PCF-42, ensuring effective oversight of its day-to-day operations, operational risks, controls and regulatory obligations.
- Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and operational risks, implementing processes and systems that improve reliability, speed and quality of execution.
- Ensure we deliver a consistently high-quality customer experience across key operational touchpoints, from onboarding through to ongoing support and issue resolution.
- Own the Group’s complaints management framework, ensuring complaints are appropriately identified, investigated, escalated and resolved, with specific responsibility for complaints adjudication within the Irish regulated entity in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Identify opportunities to use tooling, automation and AI to reduce manual processes, improve efficiency and create better experiences for both customers and internal teams.
- Define and monitor operational KPIs, identifying trends, risks and opportunities and translating data into clear actions and priorities.
- Bring operational and customer insights into product development, helping identify friction points, improve customer journeys and ensure operational readiness for new products and launches.
- Own relationships and performance across relevant operational vendors and service providers, ensuring they meet our standards for quality, reliability and customer.
- Partner closely with Compliance and Legal to ensure operational processes and customer outcomes meet applicable regulatory requirements.
- Work with ICT & Security to oversee operational resilience, incident management and business continuity arrangements, working closely with relevant teams to ensure operational risks and incidents are appropriately identified, managed, escalated and remediated.
- Hire, coach and develop a high-performing Operations organisation with a strong culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Provide operational reporting and management information to executive leadership and relevant Boards, ensuring appropriate visibility of operational performance, customer outcomes, incidents, complaints and material risks.
Requirements
- You have 8+ years of experience in Operations, Customer Operations, Business Operations or a related function, with meaningful experience in a senior leadership role.
- You’ve built or scaled operations within a high-growth consumer technology, fintech or financial services business.
- You have experience operating across regulated and unregulated business activities, with an understanding of how operational requirements, governance and controls differ depending on the nature of the business.
- You have experience delivering customer experiences at scale, with a strong understanding of how operations, technology and support come together across the customer journey.
- You have a track record of designing processes and operating models that can scale with significant customer and transaction growth.
- You understand how to use technology, automation and AI to improve operational efficiency and reduce unnecessary manual work.
- You’re highly data-driven and comfortable establishing KPIs, analysing performance and using data to prioritise improvements.
- You have experience working closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance and other cross-functional teams.
- You have a strong understanding of the operational and governance requirements applicable to regulated financial services businesses, including customer complaints, operational risk management and regulatory accountability.
- You have experience being a PCF-42 or a similar regulated position.
- Experience within crypto or Web3 is strongly preferred, particularly within consumer-facing products, but isn’t essential.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$120k–$245k
LocationOffice
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedOct 14, 2026 (18h ago)
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